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Definition of imitative in English:

imitative

adjective

‘It is to be propitiated rather than harnessed: young couples make love in the newly ploughed furrows at seedtime as imitative magic to guarantee fertility.’

‘I thought at first, when we looked at this sequence, that we've got something here that was imitative, that it was perhaps unfair.’

‘Consequently, the move toward organised generic, class and therapeutic substitution is a signal that imitative R and D will be less rewarding in the future.’

‘One of the most surprising things I noticed was how imitative I was.’

‘All available evidence suggests that ontogenetic ritualization, not imitative learning, is responsible for chimpanzees' acquisition of communicative gestures.’

‘This craze has had a lot of publicity but that carries the risk of even more imitative crimes.’

‘Secondly, with an imitative strategy there is no need to spend a lot on advertising to educate buyers about product features: you need only to show the new features added.’

‘There has been no attempt to separate imitative learning by children from other social influences that are known to affect learning, although it is clear that even very young children are capable of imitating.’

‘In music terms, at least in the pop area, this blanking experience doesn't really exist, because the nature of the medium is imitative and there is always something out there to imitate.’

‘Inherited imitative behavior is hard to demonstrate.’

‘Over the centuries the makers of delftware have copied all sorts of decorative styles so that this essentially imitative craft has become a style in itself.’

‘He has been concerned with theatre which is both local and fun and not imitative of either imported intellectual or theatrical forms.’

‘His presentation of history from the perspective of the ‘camera eye,’ particularly, might best be understood as an attempt to evade the undertow of imitative psychology.’

‘Each year, for example, imitative Miskitu crowns, scepters, and swords appear as part of a celebratory re-enactment called the kingpulanka.’

‘Like emulation learning, ontogenetic ritualization does not require individuals to analyze the behavior of others in terms of ends and means in the same way as does imitative learning.’

‘This creates an inbuilt majority of ‘violent’ games showing up when children play in an imitative style.’

‘The second movement is a sort of imitative canzona, which really shows this piece as a sort of bow to the past in many ways.’

‘Moreover, they are in every respect exemplary - i.e. they are projected as an imitative model for the viewing subject.’

‘You can imitate it, but that would be sort of… imitative.’

‘If the patient is aphasic and is unable to follow commands, the physician should have the patient attempt imitative responses.’

‘It's beautiful for as long as he's struggling, which is about two minutes before he gets a grip and retreats to a safe distance, and the band churns out boring, imitative crud for the remaining 70 minutes.’

‘Failing any evidence to the contrary, it can be assumed that this parallelism was not imitative, and that the Alice books came into existence through the same need for a healing of the spirit.’

‘When adopting the new too, he has refrained from being imitative or pretentious.’

‘In our art world, there are enough examples of art that are imitative.’

‘Television being an imitative rather than innovative business, networks tend to follow a trend until they run it into the ground, he said.’

‘They are not hackneyed imitative replicas of the original versions.’

‘And with that simple revelation somehow all art was transformed from the imitative and derivative to the wholly substantive.’

‘Barring the work of a few painters, most of the modern art in this country is blatantly imitative, but we still have a problem awarding crafts the recognition given to the arts.’

‘That is why the hip-hop in this country has been imitative, lacking creativity and sterile.’

‘In many cases this obscurity is well-deserved; many early works are mediocre, naïvely imitative stuff, unworthy to stand in the canon with Seymour, Walcott, Selvon, Naipaul or Lamming.’

‘There are all the palely imitative books of quests, holy violence and silly names, for a start; then there are the hundreds of computer games, the sword-waggling role-players, and the couple of film adaptations.’

‘I can remember lying on the floor and writing these, probably very poor, poems - because they were all in rhyme and form and probably quite imitative - but they gave me enormous joy, and I worked on them, I crossed bits out and worked on them.’

‘These told me that Lichtenstein's style defined his approach - he made it his own; it wasn't an affectation, a mere imitative device or clever trick.’

‘His architecture is a result of his subtle imitative skills rather than originality, solving problems by picking and choosing from existing schools.’

‘But here, even his imitative music is somehow distinctive.’

‘Though uneven and a bit inchoate, it shows an awareness both of the more complex, radical aspects of Debussy and the Strauss of Salome and Elektra, without being slavishly imitative of either.’

‘‘I was being literally imitative and derivative’.’

‘His films are emulative, not imitative or derivative.’

‘All art, all thought (for as Clausewitz himself expressed it, all thought is art), was a creative activity, not an imitative or derivative one.’